Dot's Diner: Genuine Route 66 Style Dining

Dot's Diner is an original 1950s diner. Everything about Dot's Diner takes the Baby Boomer back to long car trips with Mom and Pop, and brings the younger crowd in to find that it was a real time and sometime is still a real place. It is true to the 195's era authenticity from the menu to the décor and staff uniforms are genuine, vintage clothing and hair styles. Dot's Diner Grub and Slang

Starkly absent are computerized cash registers. Servers and kitchen staff actually hold conversation together, as diners once did before the fast-food era began. It is common to hear an order called out in typical diner slang, like: "Burn the Brits and Flop Two," meaning "Toasted English Muffins and Two Fried Eggs Over Easy." An order of pancakes and orange juice is called to the cook as, "A stack of blow-out patches and squeeze one." Those blow-out patches cost only $4.25. Add an egg, home fries, a side of bacon, or sausage for $1.25 to $1.75.

The food is amazing and of the highest quality. The bacon is thick, flavorful, and surprisingly with the thinnest line of fat. The hash browns are seasoned with rosemary from their own herb garden. Each dish is created with care and detail as it is ordered. Located a couple hundred miles south of old Route 66, but it is typical the Americana restaurant once commonly experienced along that road. How very refreshing to find vintage America alive and well in Bisbee, Arizona at Dot's Diner. All menu entrees are priced under $10 and everything is kid friendly.

Tiny Diner with Great Marketing

It may be a tiny place, but Dot's Diner, and its parent property, Shady Dell, get more than their share of press. While guests sip a "cup of mud," or coffee, a server in a 50s apron and loafers will gladly share Dot's magazine feature history for 2008: Arizona Highways , Phoenix Magazine, Pop Rocket, and Rachel Ray's EveryDay. They were featured five times in these four publications - one wrote about them twice in the same year.

Dot's Diner shares the property with Shady Dell. Dot's serves as the welcome mat to Shady Dell's unique 1950s travel lodging experience. Travel is the key word, because guests stay in genuine travel trailers built between 1947 and 1957. Each is fully restored and decorated in unique vintage memorabilia. Guests can book for overnights or by the week. There's a Tiki Bus, an Airstream, a Del Ray, several other models, and even the Rita D. Yacht. How many times in life is there the opportunity to sleep in a yacht, never mind one in the Southern Arizona high desert mountains, just a couple hours southeast of Tucson? Dot's Diner Details and Ratings

Ratings and Information

Setting: 5 of 5; Service: 5 of 5; Food: 5 of 5

Dot's Diner: Hours 7:30am to 2:30pm, Friday - Tuesday; Closed Wednesdays and Thursdays; 1 Douglas Road, Bisbee, AZ 85603, Dot's Diner phone [520] 432-1112, Shady Dell phone [520] 432-3567

Source: Opinion only of Yahoo contributor, Lynn Pritchett, who has experienced this restaurant.

Copyright Notice: This article has been updated from the original published article of the same name at Suite101.com e-magazine. Yahoo contributor, Lynn Pritchett is the writer and copyright owner.